Tubificine worms are segmented worms that are capable of forming entangled blobs that behave as a single organism to adapt to extreme environmental conditions or migrate more efficiently. Individual ...

In a crowded room, we naturally move slower than in an empty space. Surprisingly, worms can show the exact opposite behavior: in an environment with randomly scattered obstacles, they tend to move ...

Looking for answers on our own planet begins with the sandworm’s namesake—the humble earthworm. Before they become dried-out bits of gunk on your driveway, earthworms spend their lives employing one ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...

Ice worms spend most of the day burrowing their way through the cold, dark interior of the glacier, coming to the surface only in the afternoon to feed on algae and bacteria. Scott Hotaling Wander ...